Pickpocketed Inheritance – Nathaniel Sheppard III
3 September 2026
kumalo | turpin, Nine Yards, Johannesburg
Pickpocketed Inheritance begins with the archive as something inherited but never entirely innocent. Working across African and diasporic visual histories, I take images apart, shift their contexts and translate them through collage, painting and printmaking. I am interested in what happens when an image changes hands, and what becomes possible when its meaning is loosened from the circumstances in which it was first produced.
Off Script – Wim Legrand
3 September 2026
kumalo | turpin, Nine Yards, Johannesburg
In his latest body of work, Wim Legrand presents a smorgasbord of scenes, scenarios, still lifes and landscapes that prompt the viewer to consider the vitality of the imagination, and at the same time, the various powers at play in imagining, image-making and image commodification.
How Her Body Rests – Yolanda Mazwana
4 July - 27 August 2026
kumalo | turpin, Nine Yards, Johannesburg
Yolanda Mazwana’s eighth solo exhibition How Her Body Rests continues with the artist’s visual language and negotiates with ongoing tensions around rest. The heroines, shapes and bodies coalesced in the landscapes of Yolanda Mazwana float in a haze of endless red, in a place where feeling manifests in the body. ... Figures that once found themselves contorted in postures of unease and tension, find themselves slowly softening and unfurling. Alongside, we see figures that occupy spaces of rest-in-transition as they untether themselves from discomfort and steer towards tranquillity. Is rest something inherited or learnt? Is it a journey or state of being? If Mazwana’s 2024 solo exhibition What Her Body Does assessed the threshold between desire and ‘uncomfortable sensitivity’, then How Her Body Rests responds and examines its collapse: what happens when the body surrenders to feeling and the uncertainty on the pathway towards rest."
𝘌𝘹𝘤𝘦𝘳𝘱𝘵 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘥𝘪𝘢𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘵𝘦𝘹𝘵 𝘣𝘺 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘗𝘶𝘳𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘋𝘪𝘴𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴𝘦
Lost Familiar Things – Bastiaan van Stenis
4 July - 27 August 2026
kumalo | turpin, Nine Yards, Johannesburg
Over the course of two decades, the work of South African artist Bastiaan van Stenis has continued to evolve and captivate while retaining a great sense of urgency. What has emerged over this time is not simply the development of a visual language, but the impression of a practice that remains fundamentally connected to the artist’s life as it unfolds.
This new body of work, consisting of wall based sculptural assemblages and paintings on canvas, interrogates the very idea of image making and holding the attention of the viewer in a visually saturated post-modern reality. Swooping arcs, elongated shadows, clusters of colour and their surrounding fields: at its core, the work remains a form of landscape. Familiar elements appear and reappear, yet never settle into fixed motifs. Instead, they operate as points of orientation within a broader exploration of space, memory, and sensation.